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George Roberts. York S.W. 



Topography and Natural History of Lofthouse and its Neighbourhood 



[etc.]. Vol. II. Leeds: printed for the Author. 1885 [viii. +258 pp., 8vo. : 

 Chortophila floccosa Macq. , and Acidia heraclei noted at p. 138]. 



C. E. Stansfield. York Mid W. 



Rawdon [Dates of appearance of dipterous insects]. Nat. Hist. Journ., March 



15th, 1884, viii. 40. 



G. H. Verrall. Westmorland or Furness. 



A Hundred New British Species of Diptera [including Scatopse inermis 



Ruthe, Windermere]. Ent. Mo. Mag., Jan. 1886, xxii. 180. \_Dactylolabis 



fraiunfeldi Egger, 'Lakes' (J. C. Dale^ ; and Empis cvstiva Lw., Lake 



District]. Ent. Mo. Mag., Feb. 1886, xxii. 200 and 202. [Spihgaster pertusa 



Mg., Lake District]. Ent. Mo. Mag., March 1886, xxii. 231. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Among the newly-elected Fellows of the Geological Society we notice the 

 names of Messrs. J. W. Ashworth. of Heaton Moor ; J. R. Hewitt, of Albaston 

 near Derby; Rev. T. S. King, of Sheffield ; Mr. J. S. Burrows, of Atherton ; 

 Rev. S. Gasking, of Liverpool ; and Dr. F. F. Walton, President of the Hull 

 Geological Society. 



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The quarto Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society have been lately the 

 medium through which two of the papers of Mr. James W. Davis, of Halifax, on 

 Fossil Fishes, have been given to the world. One on ' The Fossil Fishes of the 

 Chalk of Mount Lebanon, in Syria,' with 25 plates, appeared in April 1887, and 

 another ' On Fossil-fish Remains from the Tertiary and Cretaceo-tertiary Forma- 

 tions of New Zealand,' with 7 plates, was published in April 1888. 



A useful paper — the first of a series upon the Fossil Fructifications of the York- 

 shire Coal Measures, from the pen of Mr. William Cash, F.L.S., F.G.S., of Halifax 

 — has lately been published in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and 

 Polytechnic Society. This instalment deals with the genus Calamostachys, of which 

 two species are treated of, one of which — C. casheana Williamson — has been 

 gracefully and appropriately dedicated to the author of the paper by his friend, 

 Professor Williamson. The paper is well illustrated by reproductions of micro- 

 photographs and woodcuts of strata showing the horizons in which the plants occur. 



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Two papers by a well-known Yorkshire botanist, Mr. Geo. Massee, F.R.M.S., 

 of the Royal Herbarium, Kew, appeared in the June number of the 'Annals 

 of Botany.' The first — 'A Monograph of the genus Calostoma Desv. {Mitre- 

 myces Nees),' of which genus he describes ten species, all exotic — is illustrated by 

 a coloured plate. The other paper is ' On the presence of sexual organs in 

 ySczdium,' and is also illustrated by a plate. 



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By the decease of George Adam Millar, which occurred on the 2nd of 

 December, Keighley has lost one of its most useful and honoured townsmen, and 

 the Scientific and Literary Society of that town one of its most active and sterling 

 workers. He was connected with that Society from its commencement and had 

 filled the office of President with marked success and ability. He displayed much 

 interest in the work of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, and was a welcome 

 attendant at its field excursions ; he attached himself to the Geological Section, 

 and his services at the Doncaster meeting in 1885 will not be easily forgotten ; the 

 Section was then in a moribund state, but Mr. Millar's energy on that occasion 

 in conjunction with a few others, gave it a new lease of life and started it afresh 

 on its now successful career. His services to the cause of education were also very 

 great, as evinced by his labours in connection with the Keighley Mechanics' 

 Institute for thirty years, and his long and active support of the Cambridge 



University Education Scheme. 



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